The BGP Instability Report is updated daily. This report
was generated on 16 May 2012 06:15 (UTC+1000)
50 Most active ASes for the past 7 days
50 Most active ASes for the past 7 days
50 Most active Prefixes for the past 7 days
7 Day BGP Profile: 9-May-2012 00:00 - 15-May-2012 23:59 (UTC+1000)
| Number of BGP Update Messages: | 1050445 | |
| Number of Prefix Updates: | 2818123 | |
| Number of Prefix Withdrawals: | 165279 | |
| Average Prefixes per BGP Update: | 2.84 | |
| Average BGP Update Messages per second: | 1.52 | |
| Average Prefix Updates per second: | 4.32 | |
| Peak BGP Update Message Rate per second: | 1434 | (01:39:30 Thu, 10-May-2012) |
| Peak Prefix Update Rate per second: | 1153 | (22:00:43 Tue, 8-May-2012) |
| Peak Prefix Withdraw Rate per second: | 5361 | (01:25:58 Thu, 10-May-2012) |
| Prefix Count: | 420746 | |
| Updated Prefix Count: | 175403 | |
| Stable Prefix Count: | 245343 | |
| Origin AS Count: | 41122 | |
| Updated Origin AS Count: | 21103 | |
| Stable Origin AS Count: | 20019 | |
| Unique Path Count: | 209873 | |
| Updated Path Count: | 129870 | |
| Stable Path Count: | 80003 |
Hourly Average of Per-Second Updated and Withdrawn Prefix Rate

Hourly Peak of Per-Second Updated and Withdrawn Prefix Rate

Hourly Average Per-Second Updated Prefix Rate by Update Type
Hourly Peak of Per-Second Updated Prefix Rate by Update Type
BGP Table Activity

Cumulative Distribution of per-Prefix and per-AS Updates
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The data has been gathered using a single eBGP peering with AS 131072. The observations of BGP path change are relative to this observation point. The updates are generated by a Quagga BGP implementation providing a timestamped log of incoming update messages. The timezone of this monitoring point is UTC+1000. Updates are processed on a 24 hour cycle.